Felicity Price's Blog

An ad in the Press last Tuesday, in the St Albans News (which I helped deliver at the weekend) and in the Star too; flyers into letterboxes over the past weekend; and a 90-second spiel at the St Albans Residents Association election session on Monday – the life of an election candidate is hotting up. [...]

I can see how organisations sometimes need to have a full time person handling social media responses. I’ve been kept pretty busy – and very entertained – answering people’s questions and concerns. So far I’ve only had a couple of trolls, along with a number of people who don’t think ECan should exist at all [...]

  Who would have thought I’d become so adept with social media?! Since beginning my campaign to be elected to Environment Canterbury in the September/October election, I’ve been busy putting up billboards and finding relevant stories to post and comment on Facebook. I’ve met a lot of very kind people who’ve agreed to have a [...]

I’ve been working on some interesting campaign videos in which I appear with both puppies and toddlers – despite the many dire warnings not to try filming with animals and children. Whether that was a good idea or not you’ll just have to wait and see! Right now, I’m working on billboards (carpentry was never [...]

Aspiring Environment Canterbury councillor Felicity Price says she will be catching the bus into ECan and is challenging all the other city-based councillors to reject a councillor carpark too. Currently chair of the Arts Centre of Christchurch (which has two-thirds completed possibly the world’s biggest heritage restoration), a former ECan staffer, and author of the controversial communications [...]

Do you set an alarm when you don’t have to get up? Sundays used to be the only day for a lie-in. But with no kids to get to Saturday school sports at sparrowfart anymore, why not sleep in on Saturdays too? And what about those weekdays now I’m not working full-time? Should I set [...]

With the popularity of TradeMe, garage sales are supposed to be a thing of the past. But here I am greeting early-morning dealers on the look-out for an antique bargain, migrants from up north with more cash than I’d have believed possible, and people who seem to have made a hobby out of picking up [...]

My newspaper was free when I was a twenty-something reporter. It arrived in the early hours, the dog ran to the gate to fetch it, and I took it back to bed with my morning cereal and a cuppa to ingest all the news, opinions, advertising offers and current shock-horrors I needed to set me [...]

 How silly is this? Here I am, a woman in her sixties, pillar of the community, said to be sensible and sane, ducking down below the dashboard so I can’t be seen by the young family just exiting our driveway. I’ve been sitting in the car waiting for them to depart for at least five [...]

The day always starts so well: me and my girlfriends (all of us then in our forties) dressed to the nines in frocks we’ve spent ages choosing, faces made up with just a smudge of smoky eyes and a perfect arrangement of scarlet lipstick, legs waxed and tanned, heels firmly strapped to the feet, topped [...]